Hello,

I have a requirement to connect to different databases depending on a given condition. The condition can be encoded as a part of the URL. I want to use the same CMS code, same template, same page types, etc.; but to connect to a different database.

For example lets say I have a site called http://my_sample_site.com/ and I want SS to use the database 'fruits' whenever the URL http://my_sample_site.com/fruits/ or http://my_sample_site.com/?target=fruits is found. Likewise I may have another database called 'vegetables' whenever SS sees http://my_sample_site.com/vegetables/ or the other variant of the URL. Is this possible by any means?

I can do this by using an HTTP Post variable but then permanent URLs cannot be given.

Tried using Subsites module but no luck. It installs without issues but I don't get the Subsites drop-down on the CMS admin.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

the best way (and safest) is to use GET variables. As the URL parser has special order eg yoursite.com/ClassName/Action/ID so if you did yoursite.com/fruit/ it would first look for the Page with a url of fruit, then second a class called fruit. But you would probably want to set the DB on a bunch of situations.. So I would suggest have yoursite.com/?d=fruit then in the _config you can do if isset($_GET['d']) $database = ? etc.

Hey Will,

Thanks for the reply. Well, I tried doing that. I modified the .htaccess file to give me the database in the URL with

/sapphire/main.php?db=$1&url=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Then I added the line to _config.php in mysite to change the baseURL with

Director::setBaseURL(<new base url>)

The issue is, it works if you type the URL manually, but SilverStripe doesn't make links to match the new base URL. So it gives a 'page not found' error.

What can I do to remedy this?

Thanks.